Gnom·ic Gnom·ic·al a. Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. --G. R. Lewes.
Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.
Gnom·ic·al, a. Gnomonical.
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